Are You A True Bookworm?
So, you consider yourself a book worm? Well, can you work out which famous books these first lines appear in? We'll reveal the answers next week! Time to prove yourself, book lover!
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
“You better not never tell nobody but God.''
"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
"Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living."
"The war in Zagreb began over a pack of cigarettes."
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
“Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.”
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